[Board] Finalizing details: Board meeting this Sunday.

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 11 August 2006 10:47 pm, Matt Arnold wrote:
> On 8/11/06, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> > for long, and I have no interest in challenging his authority or fighting 
him
> > for control.  (Those shouldn't even be _issues_.)
> 
> Those haven't been issues. It has long puzzled me why you granted that
> so much importance. I am not on the Board, and am not conchair. I just
> state opinions that carry no authority. You flatter me with feeling
> somehow restricted by this

It's not a matter of feeling restricted, it's a matter of losing motivation.  
I could continue, I just no longer _want_ to.

There are many other things in my life vying for my time.  I have a full time 
job, a fiancee, I accidentally became the maintainer of a project that's 
deployed in tens of millions of devices annually (so I have people from 
india/china/japan/russia emailing me out of the blue asking for tech support 
and many of them to _not_ speak english well, although all the europeans do 
for some reason), and this weekend I'm moving to a new apartment.

My time and energy has become a finite resource, and Penguicon was _always_ 
something I did just for the fun of it.

> Does no one speak up to challenge you, off in software-development-world?

All the time.  But software is not a matter of opinion, and the arguments are 
technical, not personal.  They regularly get vicious but they're not about 
_me_, they're about the code.  I go out of my way to avoid making them about 
other people in return (it's just a standard part of the culture: shut up and 
show me the code), which is probably why it took me so long to realize that 
the problem I was having was fundamentally a personality conflict.

And now, I'm going to stop posting.  I'm not interested in continuing this 
thread for the same reason I'm not interested in continuing to do more with 
Penguicon than I've already promised people I would do for Year 5.  It's just 
no fun anymore.

Rob

P.S.  Co-founding Penguicon with Tracy was a lot of fun.  Founding Linucon was 
a lot of fun (if too exhausting to sustain).  Tracy's made noises about 
trying again someday, and I'll probably try again someday.  I already have a 
name, if I'm in the southern half of the US: Y'allnix.  (Because Usenix is up 
north.)  But it won't be this year, or next.
-- 
Never bet against the cheap plastic solution.